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I had just recieved 15 of them that I ordered from BPS for $10.88 . When I saw the deal at tacklewearhouse I talked the wife into 10 more.

Yes I have began purchasing there reels. I will switch to them exclusively over the course of this year as I trade out my Garcias for these whenever i can afford to. I live in Missouri can you call them and set up a tour of the plant? That would be awesome to do .

I agree jointed black!!!

I've had two awesome chatterbait days, both doing the same thing. I got on them real good in a smal lake here in town that has a lot of boat docks. I dropped a regular jig and worm around the docks for about 4 hours one morning catching only a few small ones . Then I put on a chatterbait and swam it high in the water right by the docks and they were killing it. I caught 14 keepers in 2 hours with 4 over 3 1/2lbs each. Other day was very similar at Lake of the Ozarks me and a buddy caught a bunch doing the same thing . We got back to the ramp and a club was having its classic weigh-in and we would have won it by 4 pounds. WE had a 5lb two 4 lbers and two over 3. But that was it and Ive wasted alot of other days throwing it.

I'm slowly replacing all my reels with Ardent www.ardentreels.com products. There made here in america and have a three year warranty. Right now I have an Ardent xs1000 baitcaster which compares favorably to my Revo's. Over the course of the next year I'll replace all 10 revo's and 4600's with these reels. And all Rods are All Star 's made in Houston. Gotta support the home folks whenever possible.

I agree the h2o c is the way to go. I run the 2006 hot maps card in it . List good spots on the lake and tells what lures to use. My first real experience with it was at Table Rock Lake this summer . The guy in the marina told me about a brush pile on a flat in 30 foot of water near the drop off into 80 foot of water. I found that brush pile and saved it on there after I caught 5 decent spots off of it. We went back a month later and I purposely didnt look at my hummingbird until i trolled to the spot i had marked wih my h20c. When I was sitting on the marked spot with h20c I looked at my hummingbird and lo and behold there was the brush pile and we caught 2 more spots off of the same pile.

WEll i HOPE YOU ALL ARE RIGHT i JUST ORDERED 15 OF THEM. tHANKS FOR THE INFO

Wondering if anyone on here was using the Rick Clunn Lucky Craft crankbaits that bass pro has for $14.99 a piece. Are the really worth $14.99???

I grew up right by you in Oakville. Dunns was my favorite store in the world. They are getting ready to open a new Bass Pro Shops here in Kansas City that is 10 minutes from my house. My wife says she cant wait because she is tired of driving 45 minutes to our other Bass Pro and Cabelas. I dont think she realizes how much more she'll be going to the new one. ;D

The other day We got off work early so we got there at 1:30 pm. 956 acre lake and theres only 1 trailer in the parking lot. . So we fish around the marina and make our way out to the main lake . We get out on the main lake and fish this great point that i love . And the other boat come by . 3 guys sking no big deal. Couple of minutes later they come within 50 feet of us again. And the just kept doing this . 956 acres and there using the 10 acres right around us. It takes alot to get me mad but i was about ready to launch a zara spook at them. >

Thanks for the input guys , so do i need a new transducer or will the one that came with it work? Also can i mount it in back by the gas tank. And if yes to all these what kind of 2 part epooxy? :-/

I have a Hummingbird 595c fishfinder on the console of my boat. When I'm running with the big motor the GPS side works great but I lose the ability to see the depth. It will read that the water is like 900 feet deep. I just used the same mounting braket for the transducer the last owner used on the back of the boat. Im assuming the problem is motor noise. Anyone know of a way to get it to work when im running? Will it help if I move the transducer to the extreme outside corner of the boat in back? Any help is greatly appreciated.

I have a 1985 90 hp 6 cyl mercury motor . Yesterday it did some wierd stuff. Sometimes it is a slow starter and after I crank it for a few seconds it makes a humming noise and wont try to start again till humming noise goes away. Well last night I ran across the lake and when i stopped and turned motor off it was making this humming noise . We could not figure out how to stop it . So i take key out of the ignition and it is still humming. We had to take battery cables off to kill the humming. This has to be the ignition sticking open and not the starter right?? If it was just the starter it would quit when I pulled the key out I think. Any help here greatly appreciated.

I have a 1986 mercury 6cyl 90 hp motor. I think my trim tilt went out tonight . When you press to trim up, or down it just makes a clicking noise where the wires run to for it in the top of the motor. Could 3 guys with decent mechanical knowledge change this out or am i doomed to pay 85 per hour to have the pros fix it. :'(

Table Rock

I just bought my first boat in July . Its a 1986 Bass Tracker 1710 fiberglass with a 90 hp Mercury motor. I'm glad I bought an older boat for my first boat and I would recommend it to anyone because of the dumb things Ive done already. 1) Fishing from the front of the boat is a whole different ballgame than fishing from the back. Ive ran up on countless stumps and stuck the trolling motor in mud more than a few tines . I also drug the bottom of the boat over rocks trying to take a four pound bass off the hook in wind that pushed the boat into the shore before I realized what happened. I figure everyone is gonna make mistakes ,might as well be in a cheap boat. 2) As far as costs go . I paid 250 in sales tax ,225 for boat insurance,150 so i could use it on the county lakes in my area and about 100 to register boat and motor with the staTE. Also I spend at least $50 for gas and oil in boat 3) I believe whatever you get yer gonna want more. I have spent well over $1000 gutting boat and redoing it. 4) As I found out last week ,It will break down. Floating in the middle of table rock lake waiting for someone who will pull you in is no fun. When he told me $85 per hour for labor to fix stator I almost threw up. So I'm sitting here today while my company and union try to work out our strike and my boat is in the shop :'(. Life sucks!!!!!

My better judgement prevailed and it goes in the shop tomorrow ,after I fish an all electric lake in the morning.

Stator went bad on my 90 hp mercury motor. Is this something you caN CHANGE YOURSELF OR SHOULD I TAKE IT TO THE SHOP

Knowing i wouldnt see many of the skiers and jet skiers till next May

I just figured by the time i get off trailer and piddle around waiting for buddy to park truck and get back down to dock its been a good 3-4 minutes of idle . So just wait a few more in idle before taking off and I should be good then???

I just bought my boat it is a 1986 Bass Tracker Fiberglass with a 90 hp Mercury. So when i go out i prime the bulb and it takes maybe 5-7 seconds of cranking before motor starts . Then when i put it in gear it dies immediatley . From that point on it fires right back up as soon as I turn the key but as soon as I engage the throttle it dies. This goes on for like 3 minutes then it goes in gear and runs great about 41 mph and starts right up and takes right off the rest of the day. Anything I can do to speed up the warm -up time???

Okay so now I have my boat and all my new GPS and fish finders. I went out last night and just looked for the creek channels . I found one that where the creek channel comes right up to the mouth of a big cove and then swings out back into the main lake. I showed quite a few fish stacked up in the channel on fish finder Its the kind of place that up till now I would have fished the points of the cove and then just went on up in the cove and fished the cover. So for the first time I want to fish where there is no visual cover . So this is my plan for that tell me if this is wrong or what a better way to do it would be. My plan is to drop buoys marking the creek channel where the big bend is and fish it all morning till I prove to myself I can catch fish without a bank or cover to throw at. My biggest problem is what lures to use. Water drops from 8 ft in mouth of cove down to 25 in the bottom of the channel. I thought of starting with a rat-l-trap and running it down through there and then some deep diving crankbaits. But what else would you try. I quit fishing in 1994 and just started again I've been reading a little about drop shotting would this be an option? Any and all advice is greatly appreciated

Come on guys the grass wasnt that bad :-[. The guy threw in a roll of new carpet and Ive ordered new GPS fish finder for the console ,and one for the front. Also got an onboard charger , keel gaurd and hydro foil. By the time thats all in it I figure Ill have $3800 in the boat. Plan on having it maybe 3 years before the big upgrade. . Boats runs very well and the motor couldnt be much cleaner. Would really like to find windshields. Any body on here any help with that?? Also were gonna take the instrument cluster off and redo it. Some one suggested using contact paper with a wood pattern. Do you think this would word. If so would it look stupid??

I did , .

So here"s my Shark story. We were bottom fishing for grouper and what not off Key Largo . Well I hook a grouper and I'm reeling him up when the rods pulls down real hard strips some line then goes limp. We'll the guide starts laughing and says you know what happened there? He said you hooked a decent grouper till the shark ate it. I didn't really believe him but he asks if I wanna catch it. I said yes so he gets in the ice chest and pulls out a seven pound tuna that my wife caught and was very proud of , (We have pics of the tuna ) and puts it on big hook on a bigger rod with a steal leader. He had me put the reel on free spool and let it fall to the bottom(150 foot down). The weight hit bottom and I reeled up and it was already on there . I set the hook and held on for the hour. He estimated it at 300 lbs and he got it across the back of the boat and it was just short of being as long as the boat was wide(13 feet). So I call it 12 foot 300 lbs. I thought I was gonna die from being so tired afterward. Here is the pic.